Old West, Wild West, Where are you ?

Imaging subconscious current people already associate certain objects, tools if you will, with some human cultures and communities that have made world famous. When we think of Sombreros – brimmed hats tremendous – we appear instantly Mexico, turban we associate the Middle East and India, Japanese samurai swords, sandals and heavy sheepskin Sarica – Carpathian shepherds, clop and Slack inhabitants of Maramures. .. and these associations further examples could go on forever.

So if the genesis of American States, we omnipresence of firearms, which became a symbol of the Wild West and a customary attribute of American colonists.

Regulated by the letter of the law of the second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the right to carry and use firearms is still considered one of the pillars of the concept of American freedom and democracy. Beyond the many aspects related to the symbolism and importance of firearms in the U.S., is very clear that these instruments of death led to the conquest of the West and the U.S. finalize the form of 50 states (plus a federal district) on we know today.

Today, Wild West, a concept launched by American cinema, or Old West correct term, used mainly by American historians, is a world for us all outdated, dusty, original, with a charm that has made many childhood.

Sprinkled the Cowboys , Outlaws , sheriffs, bounty hunters, Native American tribes, ghost towns, endless herds of bison, habitual saloons and duels with pistols, caravans of wagons of settlers, hungry gold miners, fortune hunters, adventurers, trappers and other picturesque figures, the West was a land conquered firearm, where the law, all disputes would be settled by revolvers, weapons become as famous as the whole concept of the Wild West, Stetson hats, blue jeans, lasso- habitual sites or ranches.

Colonization of North America by Europeans is a unique phenomenon in history. Likely than colonization of Australia, has not been a massive migration of so many people in a huge region, previously unexplored and relatively isolated.

World reputation wicked, cruel and hard, enhanced reputation, to a large extent, the conflicts with American Indian tribes, not all aggression prevented Washington and his desire to capture and embed the West under the tutelage of Uncle Sam.

California Gold Rush years 1848-1849, “hunger” as lands settlers Apaches, COMANSA, Sioux-s etc., herds of bison meat offering readily available and the huge prairie cattle farmers barely wait to turn in grasslands, all these phenomena have worked in a single “fuel” – firearms. As good as performance as cheap and effective. Everything improved market firearms of the time, developed, sold or imported into the United States. No wonder that the historical and social context that was invented the firstmachine in the world famous brand repeating Gatling gun.

These are the guns that built America

Justice, especially across the suite of injustice imaginable, such as robbery, murder, genocide, rape, military conflict between the U.S. Army, Mexican and Native American tribes, are dictated solely by arms. Law was almost always in the background …

Free land ownership document issued by the U.S. government since 1862 has not only the rapid establishment of new settlements, but also led to very bloody conflicts in which firearms have been the new their decisive role.

Great breeders of cattle and cowboys under them specifically requires increasing land for their flocks of cattle, whose number increases with decreasing number of bison.

Cattlemen came to wear real wars with settlers, who traveled in wagons in total chaos and settled every whim. New settlers surrounding territories with huge wire fences, and declaring them private, asking money of cattlemen who had to cross. Weapons have made ​​new voice heard at deadly. The bloodiest conflict of this kind was the so-called Johnson County War, a mini-fledged war, which ended only after the national cavalry preşedintelele ordered to end conflict – all with weapons.

Great cattle breeders rich and influential people, among them often clean the slate for grazing land orcontracts favorable to the government in Washington. Such conflict was one called Lincoln County War, in 1878, local real war where the famous Billy the Kid and gained fame.

We see the birth of a new company, named in violence and midwifery, if you will, with rifle and pistol.

Conflicts, of course peppered the shooting, were ubiquitous in nineteenth-century New World.Mountains, rivers, prairies, canyons, the Old West frontier towns resounded not only country music and ballads, but especially the shooting of all sizes weather.

And lawless adventurers that plunged into the wilderness of mountains and forests in search of gold or precious fur animals, they were not protected from trouble and armed violence. As a bonus, had to face thirst, hunger, frostbite, drowning, poisonous snake bites, animal attacks and Indian tribes.

No weapons in the infant settlements were laid off. Duels, repercussions from gangs of thieves, robberies of banks and trains, the eternal battle between the sheriff and outlaw, (captured, later, in thousands of movie productions that have completed a specific sub-genre, famous western movie), were common , cimentând base that would arise, then, the country was, until recently, most powerful and influential country in the world.

Great folk heroes or historical characters of America have built all through his career and fame infamous firearms.

Sea Scouts and hunters constellation of U.S., successfully represented by Kit Carson, Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill and Calamity Jane lived and died – literally – of bullets fired. So wicked and desperadoes who made legends such as Jesse James, Billy the Kid, Butch Cassidy & the Sun dance Kid and Belle Star. Officers of the law or the army, and General George Custer and Judge Roy Bean, are also present on the list.

And of course we can not forget the greatest gunmen and duelist, to brilliant picture whole period of American Western heroes.

Are present here, the call: Virgil, Morgan and Wyatt Earp, drunk and gunman “Doc” Holliday and, of course, brothers Ike and Billy Clanton.

Efficiency and power of firearms did they come very quickly and preferences Native American heroes.Legendary figures such as Geronimo, Crazy Horse, Black Hawk, Red Claw, Sitting Bull and his son Crow Foot fought and died for the freedom of their people, armed with rifles and guns seized – or bought, if necessary – the white man.

Colt – Army revolver favorite

Without doubt one of the most famous and popular brands in the field, Colt is a company that manufactures revolvers, pistols and rifles since 1836, when it was founded by Samuel Colt engineer.

Colt became known for the creation, production and sale of dozens of models of firearms between the second half of the nineteenth and twentieth century.

Among the most famous products of Colt revolver models are so-called Walker Colt, used extensively by horseback puşcaşii American Mexican-American War. Concept Colt was a real pioneer in the field.Even famous competitor in the field, John Browning, and has served his apprenticeship in the Colt company, helping to design another product appreciated – Colt M1900 pistol model.

Those from Colt have persevered in such an extent that they were official suppliers of U.S. Army, known M16 assault rifle or M4 carbine is designed and produced after the workshop Colt.

Back during the Old West, ideas and plans of Samuel Colt led to the classic design of the revolver with the barrel rotating wheel as that provided possibility firing multiple shots. It was 1834, and the universe of small arms and hand guns was not all the same …

A model greatly appreciated at the time was Colt.45 revolver without doubt one of the weapons that were built American history. Such an object, almost cult status among American collectors of firearms, is currently selling prices exceeding the amount of $ 10,000.

Colt 45 came on the market in 1851, its success leading to continuous improvement of the weapon, the editions published in 1878 and 1898.

Some of the first small arms fire of modern inspiration, revolvers, pistols and Colt gun and won their reputation among Americans as “The Great Equalizer”. This is because branded products consist of Colt firearms that can be loaded and used by anyone, they appear earlier than guns, pistols requiring dexterity and strength that they could not have children, the elderly or people unfamiliar with them.

Smith & Wesson – revolvers for duelist and bandits

Smith & Wesson Corporation, founded in 1852, is today the largest manufacturer and seller of small arms from the United States.

Pistols and revolvers produced in Smithfield, Massachusetts, became the favorite weapons of the adventurers, and unrighteous alike, the people of Western law and Săllbatic duelist. The Smith & Wesson from soon became famous not only because of the many types of revolvers products, but also because the cartridge variety of products for large U.S. arms companies.

It began in 1852, when engineers Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson have joined forces to produce a lever gun operated by system ballistic revolutionary weapon nicknamed “The Volcanic pistol.”

Fame of this small company of ambitious American contractors came with widespread production revolver Smith & Wesson Model 1. The success of that model was due to technical innovations, such as rotating drum and high quality cartridge cartridge of similar on the market at that time. Working with Rollin White has created a superior rotary wheel cylinder created by Colt.

Market rivals have copied snapshot White’s creation, all turning in a copyright trial, won by White until 1862.

Great shot of the company was once with American Civil War, during which specialized revolvers have been successful, compared with rival companies and products revolvers Browning, Colt, Winchester.

Smith & Wesson Model 3 revolver was the weapon of duel favorite famous gunfighter and lawman Wyatt Earp. The same model was taken over by the U.S. Army in its campaign to exterminate the Native American tribes in western and southern United States.

Winchester – rifle that won the West

Produced in 1873 by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company rifle proudly bearing the brand name was invented a firearm that were based generation of American settlers launch in the complex process of conquering the western territories.

Bases its appearance have been since 1848, when inventor Walter Hunt has officially registered the patent for the “Volition Repeating Rifle”, which allowed a gun to shoot a row, with great speed, a variable number of cartridges.

The trust has conquered all was Winchester 1873, appeared the same year, the company model Winchester rifle won the national title with the most powerful and accurate cartridge at an official competition at participating major U.S. manufacturers of rifles and shotguns , that Henry, Browning and Springfield. Winchester went out almost every year to improve the already famous edition rifles.

The weapon is loaded faster than its rivals, was strong and relatively cheap, so that it can make just about anyone. The 1873 was thus produced over 720,000 units. Winchester guns are largely involved in the massacre of millions of bison in the American prairie and the main tool of death responsible for the genocide of Amerindian tribes. It was extensively used by professional hunters, riding gangs of “Outlaws”, settlers who traveled in carts, recent farmers, law enforcement and military personnel. Much of the success of this model was because cartridges work with the same caliber as that used the Colt revolvers. In fact, popular editions of Winchester rifles led to the decision of the Colt rifle cartridges to produce only Winchester caliber weapons.

Today, these revolvers, pistols, rifles and shotguns in their sleep of museums or private collections, like mute witnesses of the bloody tumults and becoming the United States.

All we ever want these days is Power and money and most of us could do anything to get it.
“I could cheat to get better grades”
“I could cheat my co-worker to outshine him at the presentation and get noticed”

Its like we are slowing but steadily turning into Faust.
Okay first let me tell who who this Faust guy was.

Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend.

Faust was a brilliant scholar but despite his scholarly eminence, Faust is bored and disappointed. He decides to call on the Devil for further knowledge and magic powers with which to indulge all the pleasure and knowledge of the world. In response, the Devil’s representative, Mephistopheles, appears.

He makes a bargain with Faust: Mephistopheles will serve Faust with his magic powers for a term of years, but at the end of the term, the devil will claim Faust’s soul and Faust will be eternally damned. The legend of Faust is often used to describe an arrangement in which an ambitious person surrenders moral integrity in order to achieve power and success. So what this guy basically did was strike a deal with the devil.

You must have heard the song Cross Road Blues by Robert Johnson? This song is frequently linked to stories of the singer himself selling his soul to the devil for the ability to play music.

Well, there is no knowing if there really is a God or Angels or for that matter the Devil or the demons. If the stories of the Crossroad deals have any truth in them or they are mere human imagination.
Its all a matter of choice- To believe or not to believe.

What the point of the matter behind all this thought is how we make the wrong choices everyday and choose the easy and the wrong way out even though we have the brains to figure out the right and the wrong. I mean why do you even think The legend of the Faust was even created? It was a moral story. Something to learn from. To err is human. We all make mistakes, may be everyday and it is all in front of us -transparent and clear. Every sin we commit, every wrong that we do, we know it. Now its your choice weather you face them and be brave enough to accept them and change or just shove it back in the corner and let it gather so much dust that you forget about it and keep committing the same mistake and the same wrong choices over and over again.

Some of you may believe in God and the Devil and that’s how you keep yourself and your deeds in check [If you do then think about this- We might not be literally striking a deal with the devil but doing the wrong things when we know that its not right is kind of the same thing isn't it?]
and some of you may just believe in your own intelligence and let it guide you and show you whats right and whats wrong.

And i lied! Its not a terrible life and people are not terrible. We are all a bit lost and a bit confused. All we need is a reminder once in a while that we can become better people and create a better world for ourselves.
Well, here is the reminder. ^ ___ ^
Now Be Good or else the hell hounds are going to be at your doorstep sooner or later! *I think i have been watching a LOT of supernatural lately. This post proves it! But man! The Winchesters are so bloody awesome and don’t even get me started on that sexy Impala!!!*

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We don’t actually see John Winchester, also known as Daddy Winchester, much in the series, but he’s such a huge influence on the boys that it doesn’t matter. From the boys, we know that he’s driven, to the point of obsession, to kill the thing that killed his wife. He raised his kids in the life, and had a hot temper. When we do see him, he acts more like a drill sergeant than a father. He does obviously love his children, as proven by him willingly going to hell for Dean, but he’s like Dean in that he really doesn’t show it.

Fanfiction portrays him everywhere between a misunderstood, joking, sad man and an abusive drunk, but in reality the series proper he’s somewhere in between. He never lays a hand on his boys, that’s for certain, and never would,but he does drive them hard, and expects them to obey.

John Winchester, while not being the most viewed character on the series, while dying in the first season, he impacts the boys right up until now. So maybe, while he may not be the most likeable character, he’s understandable and important.

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Sam Winchester is a very interesting character. He probably changes more than any other character on the show, though not always for

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the better. Many of us Sam-fans were complaining about his behavior in the later seasons, probably being heard saying things like ‘My Sammy wouldn’t do that!” I know I did. The problem was, he was. While I do have a soft spot for Sammy, he hasn’t been making many appearances lately. Just after his release from hell he does, but other than that… go back a few seasons if you want many sappy little brother scenes.

In the first season, Sam was a much simpler character. Insanely smart, rebellious younger brother, geeky and sensitive, doesn’t love hunting the way his brother or father does. The only reason he goes back is because his soon-to-be-fiance is murdered, after all. The second season is very like the first, mostly, just with his personality more sharply defined and a bit more changeable.

The first glimpse of the new Sam is when he shoots Jake, over and over. Everyone’s a little shocked about that one, I think. When the third season rolls around, we see more and more of that new Sam. He’s trying to be more like Dean, but I think he completely missed the heart of Dean in that. He starts enjoying hunting.

When the fourth season opens, Sam is completely and utterly different. Dean comes back to find a (we think) prostitute his brother’s room, and Sam is lying to him, sneaking out at night, and consorting with demons. Sam thinks Ruby is helping him, and even Dean gets convinced. She’s not, but that’s a different story.

And then, we find out Sam’s a junkie. I, personally, hated this. It makes sense, and it’s a great plot point but… it’s sad, seeing Sam like that. And Dean’s reaction, though justified, pisses me off. Completely.

So Sam beats the shit out of Dean and goes and drains an innocent human dry, and ends up starting the apocalypse when he meant to prevent it. (And kills Ruby. Yay. I did like her, kind of, but she totally deserved to die. I love them working together to kill her, too.) We think G-d cleaned him up after that, so no more detoxing for him, luckily. The fifth season is a lot about his guilt and redemption, though his struggle to keep clean is in there too. Sam and Dean separate, because they can’t trust each other (read: Dean doesn’t trust his brother) He starts to stand on his own feet, instead of leaning on Dean. Obviously he did that in the fourth season too, but this time it’s a bit more healthy.

And then he says yes to Lucifer, beats him in his own mind, and jumps into hell. Where his body stays for about six months, and his soul for a year and a half. We all know and hate RoboSam. As cool as he may be, he’s still no replacement for Sammy. When he gets his soul back, we go back to the guilty Sam, a welcome change from the Robo. I don’t love guilty Sam, but he is preferable.

And that’s as far as the character of Sam Winchester has gone to date.

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For 38 years Sarah Winchester went to sleep with the sound of hammering all around her. No lullaby could have soothed her more. Mrs. Winchester, a widow, was neither deaf nor, by most accounts, particularly eccentric. The constant noise was simply part of her life’s special mission.

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Mrs. Winchester found her strange vocation not long after her husband, William, died in 1881. At that time she inherited about $20 million, as well as an income of about $1,000 a day, from William’s holdings in the Winchester Repeating Arms Co. But unconsoled by her wealth, grieving for her husband, and troubled by the death of their only child, Mrs. Winchester sought comfort from a spiritualist in Boston.

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The Spirit’ Revenge

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The medium’s message was straightforward but alarming. A considerable part of the Winchester fortune had come from sales of the Winchester ’73 rifle, “the gun that won the West.” The souls of the riffle’s victims – and there were thousands of them – had revenged themselves by taking Mrs. Winchester’s family from her. Her life would also be cursed, said the medium, unless she bought a house, enlarged it, and continued building it for the rest of her life. As long as there was the sound of hammering, Mrs. Winchester would be untroubled by evil spirits.

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In 1884 Mrs. Winchester bought an eight-room farmhouse in the Santa Clara Valley in California. There, until her death in 1922, she employed a crew of between 10 and 22 carpenters and dozens of other workmen to help her escape the terrible curse that had been placed on her name.

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Work continued day and night, precisely as instructed. Each evening Mrs. Winchester would retire to her séance room to receive the next day’s plans from the spirits; in the morning she would relay these to the chief carpenter. As the work progressed, it became apparent that the house was being constructed as much to keep good spirits in as to shut evil ones out.

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Mystery House: Although it has undergone many changes since construction was started in 1884, the grand scale and architectural complexity still make Winchester House an outstanding sight. At the turn of the century, the building raised some seven stories at a time when the surrounding area was predominantly farmland.  

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Staircases that lead to ceilings (above) are just one of the bizarre features introduced by Mrs. Winchester, the eccentric owner.

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The dual purpose helps to explain the myriad of oddities the house contains. Some doors can be opened from one side only; some open onto thin air. One reveals a closet no more than an inch deep. Facing this opening, what appears to be the door to a closet opens onto a 30-room suite. One set of stairs leads down to another set of stairs, which then leads back to the same story. Another stairway has 44steps and turns seven corners – but rises a mere nine feet. Yet another ends at a ceiling.

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To spare the spirits embarrassment due to the fact that they are not reflective, only two mirrors are in the house. And since spirits cast no shadow, the lighting of the rooms is arranged in such a way that humans cast none either.

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Rooms for All

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Unremitting labor for 38 years wrought a house that contains n160 rooms and covers six acres. Actually, some 750 rooms were built, but many were torn out and replaced as the spirits changed their plans. The Winchester house today remains prodigious nonetheless. It contains three elevators, six kitchens, 40 bedrooms, 467 doors, 10,000 windows, 47 fireplaces, 40 stairways, 52 skylights, six safes, and a shower.

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Mrs. Winchester spent close to $5.5 million of what she called her blood money to lift a curse – and provided a feast for lovers of the bizarre and the extravagant.

Some of these places seem to have links with people who have died or with traumatic events. While the other locations doesn’t have obvious reasons why disturbances from the other side occurs there.

5.Winchester Mansion

Located in San Jose, California, the Winchester Mansion was owned by William Winchester, famed as creator of rifles. William Winchester was married to Sarah Pardee an September 30, 1862. And on July 25, 1866, she gave birth to a daughter whom they named Annie Pardee Winchester. But after a while, her daughter contracted an illness known as “murasmus”, a children’s disease in which the body wastes away. Annie Died in July 24. Not long after that, William got struck by Pulmonary Tuberculosis and died on March 7, 1881 leaving Sarah with $20,000,000 and shares with the Winchester Repeating Arms Company.

Sarah grieved deeply for her husband and lost child that she went to a psychic. The psychic told her that the disasters that had fallen her is a curse. A curse that has been set to her family because of the rifles that her husband made and the ghosts of the people that died from the rifles are the ones who killed her husband and child. The psychic also told her that to be able to protect herself, she must build a home for her and for the spirits and that she must continue building and never stop building or else, she dies. The psychic also told her that she must confuse the spirits so that they will not find her.

Sarah began the construction immediately and for 38 years, 24 hrs a day, the construction was never ending until she died on September 5, 1922.

The mansion today has an estimated 160 rooms, 10,000 windows, 3 elevators, 47 fireplaces and 47 bathrooms. It also has stairways that crisscross one another, some leading nowhere or to the ceiling, trap doors, hidden chimneys, doors that open to brick walls and doors that open to a four storey drop.

The visitors and tour guides of the mansion frequently reports footsteps, the famous cold spots and banging of doors. They also believe that even the ghost of Sarah Winchester herself haunts the mansion.

4. The Belmez faces

In August 23, 1971 an unexplained paranormal phenomenon occurred in the small village called Belmez in Spain particularly in the house of Maria Gomez Pereira. An image of a human face appeared suddenly at the floor of her kitchen. The image upsets her so much that she had the section of the floor removed and then re-laid with cement six days later. But another face reappeared on the same spot one week later. Of course, they wanted the image to be removed and destroyed but then, the local authorities came in, removed the cement and preserved it.

After an investigation, the authorities found out that a graveyard was once where the home is standing. The authorities began an excavation and found a number of human remains nine feet under the exact location where the faces appeared. Everyone was certain that the source of the phenomenon was discovered and remedied. But after 2 weeks, more faces of different sizes began to appear again including the faces of a man and a woman surrounded by 9-10 tiny faces.

Hundreds and thousands of spectators began lining up to see the faces. Some faces appears before the spectators eyes and disappear again after a couple of hours. Sounds of Wailing and sobbing was even recorded coming from the floor.

3. The Queen Mary

The Queen Mary was built as a revolutionary cruise ship in May 27, 1936. She served as a troopship known as “The Grey Ghost” in the British Navy during World War II before she returned as a cruise liner. And finally, in 1967 she was sold for $3.45 million to the city of Long Beach, California , to be used as a maritime museum and a luxury hotel.

The Queen Mary is popular for ghost sightings and unexplained paranormal activities.

Located 50 ft below water level is the engine room where the infamous “Door 13″ is. It is said that this door crushed at least 2 men to death during her history. The latest was during a watertight door drill in 1966 where it crushed an 18-yr old crew member. The crew member’s ghost is said to be wearing blue coveralls. The young man has often seen walking the length of Shaft Alley before disappearing by Door #13.

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Another interestingly scary site aboard Queen Mary are the 1st and 2nd class swimming pools. In the 1st class swimming pool, ghosts of a women dressed in old fashioned bathing suits have been regularly sighted. They believe one of them is a woman who drowned there in the 1930’s and the other drowned in 1960’s. They could be seen at the pool deck walking around and sometimes at the balcony looking at the pool activities. Trails of wet footsteps have also been seen going from the deck to the changing rooms, but then again, the pools have been drained. Another sighting occurs at the 2nd class poolroom. It is a little girl named Jackie who drowned and refused to move on for they can hear her voice and her laughter.

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And finally, Queen Mary’s salon where visitors are entertained by the ghost of a beautiful young woman dressed in an elegant white evening gown dancing alone in the shadows in the cornerof the room.

The psychic Peter James, the former ghost tour guide, identified over 150 separate entities in the ship. This explains why the ship has very active paranormal activities.

2. Flight 401

December 29, 1972. At around 23:42 pm, Eastern Airlines Tri-star Jetliner, Flight 401 was nearing Miami Airport and the captain, Bob Loft and the flight engineer, Don Repo, were getting ready for their landing when suddenly, something went very wrong. The aircraft crashed into the Everglades. The captain died in the wreckage while Repo died the next day. The plane salvaged much of the wreckage but the undamaged parts were distributed among the similar crafts.

Since then, many crews, pilots and even passengers testifies seeing the ghosts from flight 401 especially Repo and Loft’s ghosts. The sightings are more often experienced on the planes where the salvaged parts of 401 have been installed.

Repo’s ghost is more of a hands-on kind of ghost. It doesn’t mean that he’s the kind of ghost that hurts the living… He’s concerned about the safety of the flights and he personally seen to it that everything is in good condition. Here are some of the reported sightings of repo’s ghost.

• A woman was sitting next to an Eastern Airlines pilot who looked ill so she called a stewardess. The pilot disappeared before her and others. The woman identified Repo from a photograph.
• Another woman called a stewardess because she was concerned about the unresponsive man in an Eastern Airlines uniform in the seat next to her. The man disappeared in front of both of them and several other passengers leaving the woman hysterical. When later shown a sheet of photos depicting Eastern flight engineers, she identified Repo as the officer she had seen..
• A stewardess saw a man in a flight engineer’s uniform fixing an oven. But the plane’s flight engineer insisted he hadn’t repaired it. When she saw Repo’s picture, she recognized him.
•  Stewardess Faye Merryweather saw Repo’s face looking out at her from an oven in the galley. She fetched two co-workers, one of whom had been a friend of Repo’s. He recognized him. All three heard Repo warn them to watch for fire. Later, the airplane had serious engine problems and the last leg of the flight was canceled. It was learned that the galley had been salvaged from Flight 401.
•  A flight engineer was mid-way through performing the routine pre-flight inspection when Repo appeared to him and told him he’d already done the job.
• Loft on the other hand is different from Repo. Loft simply likes to appear, talk to people and disappear. Here are some of the encounters with Loft:
•  A stewardess confronted Loft, asking him why he was on the plane because he wasn’t on the passenger list. She reported this to the Captain who walked back with her and instantly recognized Loft who vanished in front of a dozen witnesses.
•  A Captain and two flight attendants claimed to have seen and spoken to Loft before take-off and watched him vanish. This experience left the three of them totally shaken that they had cancelled the flight.
• One of the vice-presidents of Eastern Airlines spoke to a uniformed captain sitting in first class. Suddenly, he recognized Loft, at which time the apparition vanished.

The ghosts sightings of Loft And Repo seems to be proving that they mean what Repo said once to a Captain he talked to before vanishing. Repo said to the Captain that there will never be another crash and that they will not let it happen.

1. Woodchester Mansion

Originally built as a Gregorian country house called the Spring Park at the beginning of the 17th century, the Woodchester Mansion was converted by the freemason William Leigh who bought the property for £100,000 in 1845. William Leigh’s cash ran out before the mansion was finished and then later died in 1873.The mansion was never complete and was never actually lived in.

According to the legends, Sir Rupert de Lansigny, the man who inherited Spring Park after he killed his cousin, once owned the estate. Several locals have reported seeing a headless horseman who they believed to be Sir Rupert near one of the park lakes. A coffin has also been sighted floating above one of the estate’s lakes. They said that the coffin belonged to a Dominican friar who killed himself by drowning! And in 1902 a local vicar saw a strange apparition at the gates to the mansion and few years later a phantom horseman was also seen on the drive dressed in civil war clothing. But it was the Mansion itself that was the epicenter of the haunting.

The present mansion is effectively a Victorian building site. With its amazing sight of fireplaces suspended in mid-air, doorways leading nowhere and the strange undulating floor which is in fact the vaulted ceiling of the cellar below, visitors wonder why it is that the building was never finished. Some of the rooms still have the abandoned workman’s tools and equipment. During the building work there were seven deaths six from accidents and a reported murder.

The mansion has its very own chapel lit by two large stained glass windows. This chapel is said to be involved in “Satanic Rituals” during the 1890’s. There is also a small chapel on the left of the main chapel which is said to be intended for Leigh’s personal use. These two rooms are connected by an arch passageway. Guests and visitors have reported seeing stones and other bits of masonry being thrown across the chapel. On more than one occasion, the visitors of the chapel have witnessed a ghost of a small man standing in the doorway, gazing up at the two huge ornate stained glass windows, as if he is concerned for the poor state of repair, for most of the glass panels are now missing or cracked.

A number of sightings of an unknown ‘tall man’ was reported at one of the corridors of the mansion. The apparition has been seen standing at one end, beside the door leading to the laundry room. This figure doesn’t just stand in the one area, but has been seen walking along the corridor, which leads to the chapel, although he is never actually seen entering it.

These are not the only ghosts that resides in Woodchester Mansion, including these are a woman who sings in an Irish folk song at the scullery, the clock that chimes but is not working, the spirit of a young girl who is playing and running at the first floor stairs, the spirits of two men standing at the landing of the stairs, the Woodchester Park Angel, the spirits in military uniform, demonic presence, the “ragged Dwarf”, the floating head of a man in the bathroom, and a woman who attacks women in the dark.